Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4191805

Elmira High/Elementary

Serves 735 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentElmira, OregonServes a school or daycare
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On record since 1994: 27 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 21 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
21Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% of active water systems in Oregon. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Treatment lapse: 12000 · Treatment lapse: 1200020052010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
15% treatment lapse · 478% missed or late test · 217% notice or report · 2

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10.5 ppb
9.8 ppb
5.5 ppb
3.2 ppb
3.2 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2 mg/L
1.6 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Initial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2021-12-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper Rule ×3Initial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  10. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×4Initial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  16. 2011-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  17. 2010-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  18. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  19. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  20. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  21. 1994-12-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served735
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityElmira
EPA ZIP on file97437

Areas served

  • Lane County

Reading this record

Elmira High/Elementary is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 735 people in Elmira, Oregon. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.